At the beginning, of course, Lacan was totally incomprehensible to us and it took us some years - to be quite honest, up until around 1975/6 before, after a further quasi­religious revelation, finally we made the choice: Lacan. So this period was one of confusion and experiment.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059038829628309506 http://bit.ly/2BBA9YJ

The modern subject can assert its radical autonomy…only insofar as its autonomy is sustained by the social substance. No wonder this gesture…of mercy intervening at the..moment of the subject’s assertion of..autonomy, is discernible throughout the history of opera

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059016163768840194 http://bit.ly/2N66wn1

the cynical functioning of ideology: that in order to function ideology shouldn’t take itself too seriously. …The top party nomenclatura didn’t take their own official ideology seri­ously, …those who took it seriously were perceived as a threat.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058994776236789760 http://bit.ly/2BA4ozw

In ‘The Piano Teacher’..what repulses him is this total disclosure of her desire…. The displayed fantasy forms the core of her being, that…“in her more than herself,” and [his] sexual act..is..a defense-formation against the threat embodied in the [anxiety-generating] fantasy

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058977229424807936 http://bit.ly/2DxcRmW

sexual difference is not…between 2 modes of symbolization… It’s not: you’ve a…set of..human features (reason,…) & on top of that there are men & women. …Difference as such is universal. To be human..means…to live a…difference that pertains to a..fundamental deadlock

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058964633514577922 http://bit.ly/2I4S9R5

@ sexual difference is…the difference that pertains to a..fundamental deadlock of the symbolic order. …Difference as such is universal. To be human being means…to live a certain difference [/suffer an antagonism],…to be differentiated along the lines of sexual difference.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058963361453535232 http://bit.ly/2TG1oZn

It is..properly traumatic for a human animal to accept that his life is not just a stupid process of reproduction and attaining pleasures, but that it is in the service of a Truth.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058962129565425664 http://bit.ly/2GiCR9v